The Food that Changed the World (TRIH ep 484)
1492 · Resource
The unexpected evolution of Italian food can serve as a tantalising doorway into some of the greatest moments of Italian history: from medieval monarchs, murdered popes, and the Renaissance, to secret societies, and Mussolini’s fascist propaganda. Yet the history of Italian food is also riddled with myths and ambiguities, particularly the rustic, romantic idea of it as deriving in the homes of rural peasants. In truth, though the distinctive culinary identity of different Italian cities endur...
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Around 1492
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- The Reformation (1517)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)